I Can Now Understand How Hitler Came to Power in Germany...

[TomCADem]

...the complete normalization of hate, violence, and mendacity. We have now gone from mere false equivalency to the embrace of right wing propaganda.

Trump is openly calling for violent unrest if he does not win, and there is not a whit of outrage from the media.

[Cary]

1. Don't panic yet

[sunonmars]

2. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it..

They always put these people in power and then regret it everytime when those they give power too eventually come for them.

[dawg]

3. Hitler had the support of a much smaller percentage of German voters than Trump now commands.

It wasn't the German people who brought Hitler to power, it was the accommodating, appeasing German political establishment that did so.

[lapucelle]

5. The tipping point was

the gridlock created by the Nazi plurality in the Reichstag. The conservative members lobbied for Hitler to be made chancellor in a "what have we got to lose?" moment.

Legislative gridlock was a strategy devised and then successfully employed by Goebbels.

[anneboleyn]

9. Very flawed Weimar Republic constitution, which allowed the Chancellor to seize power

if he deemed it necessary to do so. I heard a great lecture on this subject -- it was about how the Weimar Republic's constitution was a fatally flawed document that allowed for the exact type of takeover that Hitler (and the Nazi party) engineered. The lecture discussed how the Weimar constitution contrasted with our constitution with the separation of powers that can't just be suspended by the president.

[dawg]

10. Our system is totally dependent on the willingness of our generals to say ....

"No, Mr. President. You don't have the authority to order us to do that."

[anneboleyn]

11. I know everyone has to behave. The lecture was about how this flaw allowed for an EASY

and unimpeeded takeover.

[renegade000]

4. The complete cravenness of the more traditional conservatives is also similar.

Yes there are a handful of anti-Trumpers on the right, but for the most part they're all moral cowards or
actively evil opportunists.

[Dem2]

6. There's probably going to be violence either way

I think that's a given, am I being hyperbolic?

[Va Lefty]

7. I agree

people can call me a "concern troll" but this is scary. Even if Hillary wins, these assholes will not go away.

[rzemanfl]

8. Hillary should subsidize Wrestling and Monster Truck competitions.

That'll distract them.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. I agree. This seems to be a continuously escalating situation

and I am concerned that violence will be coming some time in the future. Seems like it is only a matter of time. The success of Trump is bad omen for this country, imo.